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Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, ktietz at redhat dot com, fercerpav at gmail dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:09:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections
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On 04/13/2015 04:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > (*) - I do think though that if someone actually tries running GDB
>> > on such older versions, and finds support has been broken for a
>> > few releases, we should declare such versions unsupported, instead of
>> > fixing things until they work, because it clearly means that nobody
>> > has been paying attention already for years.
> Unless that person, or someone else, also offers to fix whatever
> problems they found, or at least work with us on finding the bug(s), I
> think I agree.
Yeah, it goes back to the original point that what matters most is
whether there's people actively working on making sure the code still
builds and works on such platforms, taking care of user reported bugs,
etc., not the age of the platform.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves